Is CITY OF FAYETTE's water safe to drink?
CITY OF FAYETTE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 2,000, over 839 connections.
How this compares nationally
91 total violations and 9 health-based ones put CITY OF FAYETTE at the 84th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,071 of 12,903.
How CITY OF FAYETTE compares within MS
CITY OF FAYETTE's 9 health-based violations sit above the MS average of 3.2, across 349 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF FAYETTE is from 2024-03-01 (health-based: 2021-08-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF FAYETTE's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR); Groundwater Rule
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
CITY OF FAYETTE's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF FAYETTE's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,071th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.